The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1887-02-03
The President has approved the Mexican

in full blast, turning out IS tons OF iron
per day.
Ex-Gov. Hoadley, Of Ohio, has deter, J
mined to remove 10 New York to prac-
tice his profession, law.
In the recent municipal election in
Front Royal, the ''drys" carried the dis
trict by majority of Al.
Gen. f. II. Smith has withdrawn his
resignation of the office of Superinten-
dent of the Virginia Military Institute.
Mr.. G. B. Luck, of Fredericksburg and
we'll known in Virginia as a hotel man,
has leased he Braddcck House, at Alex
andria.
The Wine Manufacturers of Albemarle |
county, are making arrangements to estab-
lish an agency for the sale of their wines
in Paris. France.
Major I. II. Darlington, prominent
Richmond lawyer, and well known to
many of the citizens of the Valley. died
in Richmond on The 30th. aged 81.
Col David G. Potts. Democratic post
master at Petersburg. by appointing NJ of
President Hayes. and appointment bust less
man of that place, died on the 3lst.
Last Thursday. in the case Of Nicholas
Us. Austin from the Circuit Court of
Rockingham. the Judgment of the lower
court was sustained by the Supreme Court
of Appeals.
Prof J. Wlloughhy Reade, known to
many of our readers as reader and elccu-
Zionist, died in Norfolk on the Goth. His
remains were taken to Wytheville for IL
terment
The Attorney General says there are
two or three hundred applicants for the
position of Justice of the District of Co
lnmbil Court. yet Judge Carter has not
e resigned, nor is it known positively
that he will
Mr.. Thos A Moore. now 81 years of
age. has been clerk of the County Court
of jefferson county, w. Va, for nearly AZ
years. He is active and attentive to bust
ness and as polite as he was when first in
stalled in Office.
llt CHdt Ivy pttil AZ NOW Va Wy 40 a
legged to be for the purpose of getting
clothes for the poor but a man that was
there says that the ladies' who dancei
needed clothes worse than anybody he had
seen in q month.
Mr.. W. D Donaldson, largely engaged in
the lumber business at Sewell. w. Va,
Oh the C. & O. Railroad. was killed by J..
s. Thurman. on the 25tf. by striking him
on the head with a shovel. Thurman was
a discharged employee.
A large and beautiful collection of flow
ers, arranged in the shape Of a harp two
feet high was set upon the desk of Sena-
tor RiddIeberger on the morning CT tie
26th-presented by the Sansfeld Club,
an Irish Association Of Washington city.
Charles I.antz. Of Shenandoah county,
was instantly killed while ciiopping atrte
Oh Tuesday morning. The tree. in fall
ing, struck a large pine. and detached
limb of the pine fell on Lantz's head
crushing the skull and causing instant
d ,atb.
Sau1us jewel was shot and killed by
Silho- " fttA L itSl f+DUGO bih
o'clock, about three miles west Of Edin-
brig, in Shenandoah county. The parties
had some difficulty when Ward, armed
with shotgun, fired Jewel was shot in
the breast and died in a short time.
A fire at Culpeper G. H.. on the Goth.
d stroyed the stock Of millinery goods of
Miss Virginia Cochran i'll the three-story
brick house on Davis street. The Joss is
about 81 500, fully covered by insurance
Miss Cochran is a daughter OF the late Ad
olson Cochran, of this county. and has
many friends here Who viii be gratiliad tt
learn that the loss is covered by insur-
anee.
j. c. Matthews Ias-.again been rejected
by the Senate fer the position of Recorder
of Deeds for the District of Columbia
The vote was II ayes ard 81 noes. Sena-
tor ingalls,. Republican. ard Senators
Blackburn and Salisbury. Democrats were
the principal speakers against the confirm
alton. Messrs. ,,Platt, Blair. Farwell an6
Mitchell, of Oregon, we're the Republican
Senators who voted for confirmation.
In the Senate on the 18th. Mr.. Plat
from the Committee on Patents, reported
a bill for the relief of w. NJ. Bryant, for
merly Of Alexandria. but now of Wash
ington, amended so as to p. Divide that thu
Commissioner Of Patents be authorized t.
hear and determine the application Of Mr.
Bryant for the extension Tor the further
term Of seven years of the letters patent
..for improvement in preparing the pitt
of cornstalks for use in arts Mr.. Dry
ant was at ore time an inmate of the In
sane Asylum at Ibis place, and is wei
known to many of our citizens.
The headIess and mutilated body of {
man was found in the Adams Express Of
fee, Baltimore, "Wednesday of last week
One arm and both feet were cut off an(
packed in trunkwith Tie body. The
head was missing. 1t was Shipped from
New York, and man named Unger il
under arrest for numbering his partner il
the sausage business, named BALI. Money
was the object. Unger's children testi
fed that the two had qnarrelled, because
BALI would not furnish Unger money tt
open a butcher shop. It was horrible
affair Unger has made full confession
of the murder.
The Free Lance is neither respectful mol
logical in its remarks upon the paragraph
that appeared IN the VIRGINIAN about
Mr. Jno. i. Marye, Gov. Lee and Other
Virginlans going to Minnesota to make
investments. We learn that they repre-
scented a half million dollars made in
Virginia, which it was their purpose to
invest in Minnesota. It's no argument
t. Justify such I'm Virginian policy to say
that Northern men come here to invest in
Virginia properties to develop them. That
is all right. and it would be still more com
mendable if Virginians who may have
surplus money would show their confidence
III their own States future, by aiding
them with What means they have. We
want to see our own labor employed. and
our own people benefited, through the
efforts of those able to contribute in that
direction. 1t is q poor way to show de
votion to the State by running away from